Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R657 - Wildlife Resources
Rule R657-37 - Cooperative Wildlife Management Units for Big Game or Turkey
Section R657-37-18 - Reciprocal Program
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 657-37-18
Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024
(1)
(a) A landowner association president or
landowner association operator may enter into reciprocal agreements with other
landowner association presidents or landowner association operators to allow
hunters who have obtained a CWMU permit to hunt within each other's CWMUs as
provided in Subsection R657-37-4(3)(a)(xiii).
(b) Reciprocal hunting agreements may be
approved only to:
(i) raise funds to address
joint habitat improvement projects;
(ii) address emergency situations limiting
hunting opportunity on a CWMU;
(iii) raise funds to aid in essential
management practices for the benefit of CWMU species, including obtaining age
or species population data as recommended by regional division personnel and
approved by the division's Wildlife Section Chief;
(iv) be used with unused vouchers as
provided in Subsection R657-37-9(18)(2); or
(v) be used to achieve antlerless harvest
objectives for big game populations that may migrate across different
CWMUs.
(c) If a person
is authorized to hunt in one or more CWMUs as provided in Subsection (a),
written permission from the landowner association member or landowner
association operator and written authorization from the division must be in the
person's possession while hunting.
(d) The division may identify an individual
to administer and coordinate reciprocal agreements and each expenditure of
funds generated therefrom.
(e) The
division must provide written approval before any expenditure of funds
generated from reciprocal agreement permits.
(f) The administrator of the reciprocal
agreement program must provide an annual accounting of proceeds generated from
reciprocal agreement permits and how those funds were spent or
administered.
(2)
(a) If a landowner association has a CWMU
voucher that is not redeemed during the previous year, a landowner association
may donate that voucher to a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, provided the
following conditions are satisfied:
(i) the
voucher donation is approved by the director before transfer;
(ii) the voucher is donated for a charitable
cause;
(iii) the landowner
association does not receive compensation or consideration of any kind other
than tax benefit; and
(iv) the
recipient of the voucher is identified before obtaining the director's approval
for the donation.
(b) A
CWMU voucher approved for donation under this section may be extended no more
than one year.
(c) The division
must be notified in writing and the donation completed before August
1st the year the CWMU voucher is to be
redeemed.
(d) Vouchers may be used
in reciprocal hunting agreements in accordance with Subsection
R657-18-(1)(a).
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